Climate change 2016 Data collected from around the globe (including the sea ice data of Exercise 23) show that the earth is getting warmer. The generally accepted explanation relates climate change to an increase in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) because CO2 is a greenhouse gas that traps the heat of the sun. A standard source of the mean annual CO2 concentration in the atmosphere (parts per million) is measurements taken at the top of Mauna Loa in Hawaii (away from any local contaminants) and available at ftp://aftp.cmdl.noaa.gov/ products/trends/co2/co2_annmean_mlo.txt.
Global temperature anomaly is the difference in mean global temperature relative to a base period of 1981 to 2010 in °C. It is available at www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/data-info/global.
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Response variable is: Temp
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s = 0.0885 with 58 – 2 = 56 degrees of freedom
- a) Write the equation of the regression line.
- b) Is there evidence of an association between CO2 level and global temperature?
- c) Do you think predictions made by this regression will be very accurate? Explain.
- d) Does this regression prove that increasing CO2 levels are causing global warming? Discuss.
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